Thank you so much Toms for bringing me this article, and thank you Tuan so writing it so well (apparantly I saw it after the typos were fixed).
Another thank you to Intel for publically sharing this. I love you Intel, and as long as I don't lose my job and can save up enough, I may be going i7/i5 for my next computer. =D
[citation][nom]JumpKickJoe[/nom]great now lets see them show us the process for their pricing strategies.
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This almost made me laugh and wake a few people up... how rude of you.
[citation][nom]iulianx[/nom]Great article! I had no idea how a cpu is made until now...[/citation]
Me neither. I ad guessed, but I was so horribly off... though my assumption was cooler.
[citation][nom]Wayoffbase[/nom]sand (earth), fire, water, and air. am I missing any? I don't think so you build the chip from earth, power it with fire magic, and tame the fire elemental inside with air or water if you are a really leet druid[/citation]
Way off base is right, +1 regardless. =D
[citation][nom]bin1127[/nom]Thanks TH and Intel for the article. The manufacturing process is pretty cool, especially the picture of the transistor interconnects. And I didn't know when they say tray pricing they meant literally a tray of processors. Good stuff![/citation]
Ha, I just thought like a box of processors...
How much is this silicon worth anyways?
[citation][nom]bloodblender[/nom]Saw this on APC's website, lol, pretty interesting stuff, but hey, at least Intel and AMD have got plenty of resources (sand) to keep making processors![/citation]
Ha. So, then, what would it take to do a massive die shrink and to move towards 1000mm wafers to save on costs even more though? Petaflop sever in every home anyone? Not like we're running out of materials anytime soon. Sand and copper are in a nice abundance these days (well copper somewhat).
[citation][nom]nonamelab[/nom]A little late Intel
http://www.globalfoundries.com/mul [...] nd_to_chip[/citation]
I would like to thank you for the link, much appreciated.
[citation][nom]calmstateofmind[/nom]pretty interesting stuff. makes you wonder how somebody could actually think this stuff up and it work as well as it does. amazes me...[/citation]
Through a mixture of duct tape and bubble gum. Likely a lot of drunken ideas...
[citation][nom]JWL3[/nom]Anyone still think processors are overpriced?[/citation]
I never did. People paid several hundred dollars for a 1MHz chip during my fathers days, so this ain't so bad.
[citation][nom]dicobalt[/nom]That's an amazinly simple process to make a chip. I especially like how the multiple layers are made, that's so elegantly simple. The whole process looks like there is so much that could go wrong though. How do you polish a surface so smooth it's flat even on the atomic level? How do you prevent physical atomic level damage between manufacturing stages? How do you ensure contact between layers is perfect and there are no atomic sized airholes so to speak, is it perfect? Do I have little atomic sized vaccums inside my CPU between layers? Those are the most confusing parts to me. I guess I won't get an answer to those questions because the answers are what keeps intel in business lol[/citation]
We all have more questions. They would all takes between hours to even years to explain everything likely. Best bet is to become an engineer and apply to Intel for a high ranking position. =D